Cake.
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Ever wonder who sings the most about cars? The Beatles? Bruce Springsteen? Eminem? Ludacris (pictured)? According to a recent scientific study by Gold Eagle, the musician who sings about cars the most is Lil Wayne. In fact, after analyzing more than 100,000 songs, they note that their list was dominated by rap and hiphop artists.
But that doesn’t mean that other genres aren’t ignoring cars. Some other GRM favorites like Weird Al, They Might Be Giants and the Dead Milkmen made the list as well.
So, what are some of your favorite songs about cars?
Cake.
Can't link right here from work, but I'll give you my favorite "car songs":
Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Hudson Commodore, Jason Isbell
Lincoln Park Pirates, Steve Goodman
Pickup Truck Song, Jerry Jeff Walker
I don't know. What about Richard Thompson. A long line of automotive related songs and lyrics.
1952 Vincent black lightning
MGB-GT
You dream too much (lyric 'She's got a chassis like an XJ-S'
Actually, that's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there's more.
I would have guessed Fu Manchu would have been pretty high up on the list at least.
.......aaaand there you have it. They arent even on lyrics.com therefore not included in the study.
Ric Ocasek.
Every song he sang had the Cars involved ;)
failboat said:I would have guessed Fu Manchu would have been pretty high up on the list at least.
.......aaaand there you have it. They arent even on lyrics.com therefore not included in the study.
failboat. steam: ratr0
Wait, what?
Was Chris Rea big over here? Remember this album cover with his Caterham on it?
Wait.... how did the Beach Boys not get on that list? They've probably put out at least 88 car related songs next to Bruce Springsteen's 88 isolated references.
Kind of surprising that Punk rated the lowest car mentions, but has some of the coolest car-related album covers.
For favorite songs about cars, I'm going to nominate Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time".
Sir Mix-A-Lot is a legitimate enthusiast and arguably one of the more creative rappers with his automotive references.
Most notably, he has a line about a turbo Vette and an entire song title Carz with gratuitous V12 noises.
Rob Zombie/White Zombie
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